(01-22-2018, 12:33 AM)Predator Wrote: I agree. It almost seemed like Marone was expecting the game to be some sort of defensive slug fest like against Buffalo and not against the number 1 offense in the league with the greatest QB of all time.

Few in this organization have ever made it this far so hopefully this will be a learning experience for the coaches and the players.

When it's one and done, you leave nothing on the table. You hold nothing back.

It just feels more that that. Like that Hackett and Walsh are so scared to make a mistake that they don't take any chances. On one of the Marrone Thursday radio shows. Marrone talked about how if any of the coaches or players are not comfortable with a play call or set during the week, they completely remove it from the playbook for that week.

While I get that you want to run things you are comfortable with to maximize execution, that also sort means you are basically playing scared and unable to change on the fly to something else unless if it something you prepared in a prior week. 

I guess as fans, we can hope that with more experience and practice time between players and coaches, they can install more wrinkles and creativity. There are glimpse of it every once in awhile with some of Hackett's play designs and Walsh coverage looks, but they need to happen more often and be able to use them for in-game adjustments.

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